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2017-08-15

At the opening session of the 20th IFAC World Congress Lennart
Ljung received the Nathaniel Nichols Medal "For making
state-of-the art system identification techniques easily
accessible to engineers and scientists through long-term
commitment to software development". This is one
of IFAC's
Major Awards awarded once every three years.

2017-07-05

Daniel Axehill with project partner Scania CV has received a grant
from Vinnova/FFI for the research project Stability and controller
structures for self-driving vehicles.

2017-06-14

Claudio Altafini is one of the four principal investigators in a
project about Multi-resolution dynamical modelling of multiple
sclerosis that has received funding from the Swedish Foundation for
Strategic Research (SSF).LiU
news (in Swedish)

2017-05-04

The Wildlife Security initiative has received financial support
from the Norrköping Research Foundation for development of a digital
platform for use in the Kolmården zoo.LiU news (in Swedish)

2017-04-26

Christian A. Naesseth has received the Best paper award at the 20th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics as one
of the authors of the paper Reparameterization Gradients through
Acceptance-Rejection Sampling Algorithms.

LINK-SIC (Linköping Center for Sensor Informatics and Control) has
been granted competence center funding from Vinnova.

2017-03-03

Gustaf Hendeby has been promoted to IEEE Senior Member.

2017-03-01

Johan Löfberg, Inger Erlander Klein, Angela Fontan and Svante
Gunnarsson have all been
nominated for the pedagogical prize of the mechanical engineering
students.

2017-02-24

Kolmården Fundraising Foundation (KIS) has decided to donate new mobile
phones to the Wildlife Security project. The phones will be used by
the Ngulia rangers.Wildlife Security

2017-02-06

Manon Kok's PhD thesis is given attention on the
university homepage.LiU news

2016-12-02

Inger Erlander Klein has been nominated for Linköping University's
leadership prize in her role as chairman for the educational board for
computer science-oriented engineering programs.

2016-11-11

Martin Enqvist has been awarded an Iplom for the course
Industrial control systems by the students at the Industrial
Engineering and Management (I) program. The award is given annually to
the top 5 courses for I students based on the course evaluation result.

The iQmatic project, in which Niclas Evestedt, Oskar Ljungqvist,
Daniel Axehill and Fredrik Gustafsson are involved, has been given
attention on Swedish TV.
SVT video (in Swedish)

2016-05-20

Niklas Wahlström, Fredrik Gustafsson and Gustaf Hendeby are members
of a team that has been awarded a category prize in Venture Cup Öst.Press
release (in Swedish)

2016-04-22

The high number of applicants to the WASP graduate school is given
attention in the local newspaper. There are six PhD students in WASP
from the control division so far.Corren article (in Swedish)

2016-04-20

Three students have received scholarships by
Radionavigeringsnämnden. Martin Szilassy and Daniel Örn were awarded
for their master's thesis about low-energy GPS positioning and
Mathias Hallmén was awarded for his master's thesis about map-aided
GPS tracking in urban areas.MSc
thesis 1MSc
thesis 2

2016-03-09

The paper Features for micro-Doppler based activity
classification, with Gustaf Hendeby as one co-author, was one
of the 20 most downloaded papers
across all IET Journal titles in January 2016. The paper is a
combined result of the Security Link project DASA and the FOCUS
project muDAC.
Paper

Fredrik Gustafsson has, together with Johan Bergenäs, written a debate
article in the Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer on the need
for bigger research visions.
Veckans
affärer article (in Swedish)

2015-11-11

The Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer has listed the
Swedish super companies of 2015. The spin-off company NIRA Dynamics
is ranked over-all number two in Sweden, and also Softube is on this
list. Only one out of ten thousand companies qualifies to be a super
company in their definition.
Veckans
affärer article (in Swedish)

2015-11-04

Claudio Altafini has received a grant from the Swedish Research Council
(VR) for a project about Decision making on networked systems in
presence of antagonistic interactions.

The article Pose Estimation Using Monocular Vision and
Inertial Sensors Aided with Ultra Wide Band by Hanna Nyqvist,
Martin Skoglund, Gustaf Hendeby and Fredrik Gustafsson has been
nominated for the Best paper award at the International Conference on
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation.

Daniel Axehill has been awarded an Iplom for the course Control
theory by the students at the Industrial Engineering and Management
(I) program. The award is given annually to the top 5 courses for I
students based on the course evaluation result.

2014-11-04

Anders Hansson has received a grant from the Swedish Research Council
(VR) for a project about Distributed optimization for scalable
computations in control.

2014-11-04

Tianshi Chen has received a grant from the Swedish Research Council
(VR) for a project about Kernel-based regularization methods for
system identification.

2014-10-31

The paper Indoor Positioning Using Multi-Frequency RSS with
Foot-Mounted INS, with Martin Skoglund and Gustaf Hendeby as
co-authors, has been selected as the 2nd best paper at the International
Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation.

André Carvalho Bittencourt's PhD thesis is given attention on the
university homepage.LiU news (in Swedish)

2014-09-16

The paper Automatic robust convex programming
by Johan Löfberg has been selected as one of the Editor's choice
articles to showcase the Taylor & Francis journal Optimization Methods
and Software.

2014-09-12

The paper Smoothed state estimates under abrupt changes using
sum-of-norms regularization
by Henrik Ohlsson, Fredrik Gustafsson, Lennart Ljung and Stephen
Boyd has received the Automatica paper prize.

2014-09-12

The paper System identification of nonlinear state-space models
by Thomas B. Schön, Adrian Wills and Brett Ninness has received the
Automatica paper prize.

2014-09-12

The paper An optimization-based approach to human body motion
capture using inertial sensors by Manon Kok, Jeroen D. Hol and
Thomas B. Schön was nominated for the application paper prize
at the 18th IFAC World Congress.

2014-09-12

Fredrik Gustafsson and Martin Enqvist are co-applicants in an EU
project about Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and
Coastal Monitoring that now has been granted funding.

2014-07-28

On July 3rd, LINK-SIC's chairman Gunnar Holmberg, Saab, and Johan
Bergenäs, Stimson Center and Linköping University, participated in a
debate in Almedalen about the use of UAV's in society. One of the
topics discussed was the Ngulia project.
Movie
(In Swedish)

2014-06-26

On July 1st, Fredrik Gustafsson will give a seminar about innovation
efforts in Sweden during the Almedalen week together with some leading
politicians and researchers.
Invitation (In Swedish)

Fredrik Gunnarsson has been selected as Inventor of the year at
Ericsson AB for his large contributions to the Ericsson patent
portfolio, mainly concerning radio resource management,
self-organizing networks and heterogeneous networks.
Ericsson news item and videoEricsson photo

2014-04-04

SenionLab, which is a spin-off company from the division,
has been selected as one of the 33 most promising new engineering companies in
Sweden by the Ny Teknik magazine and has recieved the Jumpstart
prize from Teknikföretagen and Veryday.
Ny Teknik article (In Swedish)Teknikföretagen (In Swedish)

Fredrik Gustafsson has been granted 50 million SEK over ten years as
Distinguished Professor (rådsforskare) by the Swedish Research Council
(Vetenskapsrådet) for the project Scalable Kalman Filters.
VR decision (in Swedish)

2014-02-03

Professor Claudio Altafini has now joined Linköping University and our
division.

2013-11-11

Fredrik Gustafsson has co-authored an article in Svenska Dagbladet
about the possibilities
of UAV monitoring of endangered animals in national parks.SvD article (In Swedish)

Roger Larsson, who got his Licentiate's degree on June 12, is the
100th person who gets a third cycle degree (Licentiate's or PhD)
from the division. Roger is working as an industrial PhD student
within the Industry Excellence
Center LINK-SIC.

2013-05-29

Thomas Schön has been awarded the Best PhD thesis award 2013 by the
European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).EURASIP homepage

2013-05-29

Johan Kihlberg and Simon Tegelid have received the best Master's
Thesis award by Dataföreningen Öst for their thesis Map aided
indoor positioning.

2013-05-22

Fredrik Gustafsson has received a research grant from FFI as one part
of a large joint research project called iQMatic. The project topic is
autonomous heavy duty vehicles and is to be carried out in
collaboration with KTH, Scania, Autoliv, and Saab.

2013-03-07

Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad has been awarded the Teacher prize by the students at
the Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (Y) program.

2012-11-29

Fredrik Gustafsson has been awarded a prize as the entrepreneurial
researcher of the year at Linköping University.
LiU news (In Swedish)

Martin Enqvist has received a grant from CENIIT for a project about
Adaptive linearization of electronic devices.
CENIIT homepage

2012-09-20

Karl Granström became "First Runner Up for the Best Student Paper
Award" at the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion for
the paper "On the Reduction of Gaussian Inverse Wishart
Mixtures" with Umut Orguner as co-author.

2012-04-18

Martin Enqvist has been nominated
for LinTek's pedagogical prize "Gyllene moroten" by the students at
the Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering
programs (D-sektionen).

Fredrik Gustafsson has received the 2011 Harry Rowe Mimno Award for
the tutorial "Particle Filter Theory and Practice with Positioning
Applications", which was published in the AESS Magazine in July 2010.
Award webpage

2011-12-06

Fredrik Gustafsson has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for "contributions
to theory and applications of statistical signal processing".
IEEE Fellows 2012

2011-12-06

Fredrik Gustafsson has been elected to serve in the International
Society for Information Fusion (ISIF) board of directors.
Voting results

Daniel Axehill has received a grant from CENIIT for a project about
Real-time MPC.
CENIIT homepage

2011-06-21

An article about the research centers Security Link and FOCUS has
been published in Framtidens forskning.Article (In Swedish)

2011-06-20

Fredrik Gustafsson and Erik G. Larsson have received a grant from
the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) for a project
about Cooperative Localization. Furthermore, Patrick Doherty,
Thomas Schön,
Anders Ynnerman and Michael Felsberg have received an SSF grant for a
project about Collaborative Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

Volvo's night vision project, in which Andreas Eidehall works as an
expert, is given attention
in Dagens nyheter. Andreas got his PhD in the division in 2007.DN's coverage (In Swedish)

2011-05-09

Svante Gunnarsson has been awarded LinTek's pedagogical prize "Gyllene
moroten". The prize is given to recognize and reward outstanding
pedagogical achievements during the previous academic year.

2011-04-14

Svante Gunnarsson has been nominated
for LinTek's pedagogical prize "Gyllene moroten" by the students at
the Industrial Engineering and Management (I) program.

2011-03-03

David Törnqvist has been awarded the Teacher prize by the students at
the Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (Y) program and been nominated
for LinTek's pedagogical prize "Gyllene moroten".

2011-01-20

Lennart Ljung has received a prestigious Advanced Grant from
the European Research Council for research about
Limitations, Estimation, Adaptivity, Reinforcement and Networks in
System Identification. This is a five-year project that will be
performed in cooperation with the Automatic control group at KTH. ERC homepageLiU news coverage (In Swedish)

2010-11-05

Fredrik Gustafsson has received a large grant from the Swedish
Research Council (VR) for Extended Target Tracking. VR homepage

2010-11-05
Lennart Ljung and Thomas Schön have received grants from the Swedish
Research Council (VR) for projects about Convexity within System
Identification and Calibration of Nonlinear Dynamic
Models, respectively. VR homepage

2010-11-03
Johan Löfberg has received a grant from CENIIT for a project about Advanced
Optimization Algorithms for MPC.CENIIT homepage

2010-04-07
Martin Enqvist was nominated for Gyllene Moroten 2010. Gyllene Moroten
is a prize instituted by LinTek, the student union at the faculty of
technology. The prize is given to recognize and reward outstanding
pedagogical achievements during the previous academic year.

2009-09-21
The government published 2009-09-21 the budget proposition
(PROP. 2009/10:1) that announces 40 new strategic centers in
Sweden. Two of these in the areas of ICT and Security have directors
from the automatic control group, see www.elliit.liu.se and www.securitylink.liu.se.

2009-04-25
Thomas B. Schön has been awarded Gyllene Moroten 2009. Gyllene Moroten
is a prize instituted by LinTek, the student union at the faculty of
technology. The prize is given to recognize and reward outstanding
pedagogical achievements during the previous academic year.

2008-06-18
The CADICS (Control, Autonomy, and Decision-making in Complex Systems)
Linnaeus excellence center - of which the Automatic Control group is a
member - has been awarded funding for 10 years by the Swedish Research
Council (VR) as one of twenty prominent Swedish research environments.
VR
press release (In Swedish)LiU news coverage (In Swedish)

2008-06-18
LINK-SIC (Linköping Center for Sensor Informatics and Control) is an
Industry Excellence Center that has been granted funding from Vinnova
and several companies. The center will be organized around the
Automatic Control and Vehicular Systems research groups and the
research projects involve five industrial partners: ABB Corporate
Research, ABB Robotics, GM Powertrain Sweden AB, Saab AB and Scania
AB.
LiU news coverage (In Swedish)

2007-12-18
Automatic Control undergraduate studies constellation (the research
groups Automatic Control and Vehicular Systems) has received a
prestigious award from The Swedish National Agency for Higher
Education (HSV) as one of five outstanding educational environments in
Sweden.The decision from HSVLiU news coverage

2007-11-26
Erik Wernholt's research on identification of models for industrial
robots is given attention
in Ny
Teknik
(press
release).

2007-11-26
Lennart Ljung has been awarded the IEEE Control Systems Award for 2007
"For seminal contributions to system identification and its impact on
industrial practice". IEEE

2007-05-15
Lennart Ljung has been awarded an honorary degree from Helsinki
University of Technology. The degree acknowledges his contributions to
science, technology and international cooperation. The award ceremony
will take place on April 2, 2008.

2007-01-24
Andreas Eidehall's research on automotive collision avoidance is given
attention in newspapers, radio and TV. SVTCorren

2006-12-14
Anders Hansson will co-ordinate a 2.1 Million Euro project funded by
the European Commission on Clearance of Flight Control Laws using
Optimization.

2006-06-20
The 15th ERNSI Workshop on System Identification will take place at
Automatic Control, Linköping University on September 20 and 21, 2006.
ERNSI 2006

2005-10-11
A workshop on the occasion of Lennart Ljung's 60th birthday will be
held on Friday, September 22, 2006. Forever Ljung

2005-12-19
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has granted Prof
Lennart Ljung 45
million SEK over 5 years for the creation of a research center within modelling, visualisation and information
integration.
SSF LiU

2005-11-28
Mikael Norrlöf and Prof Svante Gunnarsson have recieved a grant (3
years, ~600 kSEK/year) from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for the
project "Sensor integration with application in modeling and control of
advanced industrial robot".

2005-06-02
Jonas Jansson is interviewed on the local radio news and national
television, about his research on collision mitigation.
Sveriges
radio 2 juni

2005-05-03
Lecturer Inger Klein has been nominated to "Gyllene Moroten", for her
teaching activities.

2005-03-16
Rickard Karlsson's patented particle filter navigation for ships
is given attention in various magazines and newspapers.
All the links

2004-12-15
Director of Studies Kent Hartman receives an award for his engagement
in education, on different levels.
The prize was awarded by AF (Akademiska Föreningen) in Linköping.

2004-11-26
Article about intelligent cars in the local newspaper,
focuses on Professor Fredrik Gustafssons research

2004-11-22The science council grants large funds for Professors
Lennart Ljung, Fredrik Gustafsson, and Anders Hansson. More
in Swedish